Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:51:05 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Arend P. van der Veen" <apv@capital.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages Message-ID: <20040415115105.GF40193@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1082014766.7294.26.camel@localhost> References: <1082014766.7294.26.camel@localhost>
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:39:26AM -0400, Arend P. van der Veen wrote:
> I have a question about ports. I have a port installed. I want to make
> package for it also. I find that I must delete the package from my
> system first and then go "make package". This is because make package
> must install the package first. =20
>=20
> Is there a better way to make a package that does not require me to
> uninstall and reinstall it from my system ?
Unfortunately not -- building a package does require you to install
the package as well. There has been some mention on the
freebsd-ports@... mailing list of modifying the system to be able to
install into a temporary area prior to creating a package, but as far
as I know, nothing has yet happened.
A solution to this problem which you can use if you have sufficient
spare capacity is to set up a jail system specially for building
packages: that's the basis of what the FreeBSD package building
cluster does.
Cheers,
Matthew
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